The Newly Wed Baby Isn't a Bit Sleepy

This Sunday strip follows a young couple's escalating attempts to put their baby to sleep. The father's remedies—from coddling to rocking to a lullaby—backfire when a telephone call startles the infant awake. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to track cause and effect across six frames, a visual structure that became standard in newspaper comics. The recurring characters and domestic humor reflect the popularity of family-centered strips in the early 1900s, when newspaper comic pages served as laboratories for developing the narrative and visual conventions that would define the medium.